News Roundup 4/17/18

by | Apr 17, 2018

  • Three Senators are calling on the release of information of CIA Director nominee Gina Haspel’s background. [Link]
  • Congress introduces new AUMF. [Link]
  • Seven inmates were killed in a riot at a South Carolina prison. [Link]
  • The White House says Nikki Haley spoke out of line and there are no new sanctions against Russia. [Link]
  • The UK is moving three warships to the Korean Penisula to enforce sanctions against North Korea. North Korea calls the move a blockade and an act of war. [Link]
  • Russia will begin blocking access to Telegram. [Link]
  • A US pastor will face terrorism and spying charges in a Turkish court. [Link] The US State Department says there is no evidence that the pastor is guilty of these crimes and trusts the Turkish judicial system will find that. [Link]
  • Robert Fisk traveled to Douma, finding that residents and doctors did not seem to believe there was a chemical weapons attack. [Link]
  • The OPCW still has not inspected Douma. [Link]
  • Moon of Alabama explains how Assad may have able to intercept a large number of US missiles. [Link]
  • Ron Paul explains why Trump’s choice to attack Assad was awful. [Link]
  • US Marines in Afghanistan are now working to recapture areas from the Taliban that the US Marines liberated from the Taliban years ago. [Link]
  • The UN says 8.4 million people in Yemen are a step away from famine. [Link]
  • A UAE plane landed in Somalia and was boarded by the Somali military. The Somali government seized $10 million that was on the UAE plane. The UAE announced they will stop training the Somali military. [Link]
  • Militant groups clash in Colombia. [Link]

Kyle Anzalone

Kyle Anzalone

Kyle Anzalone is news editor of the Libertarian Institute, opinion editor of Antiwar.com and co-host of Conflicts of Interest with Will Porter and Connor Freeman.

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